Every Breath You Take

The next thrilling novel from the bestselling author of Run for Home and Bad Moon Rising

Quigley presses the fear button right from the start and keeps the tension cranked up high right up until the explosive climax

The grandmother from Sunderland continues to astonish with her gritty and convincing crime stories

It's the stunning dichotomy of a normal, working-class, everyday cast and the very abnormal acts of terrifying evil that give Quigley's novels such a chilling edge of reality - and that's the scariest things of all

Sheila started work at fifteen as a presser in Hepworths, a tailoring factory. She married at eighteen and had three daughters; Dawn, Janine and Diane and a younger son, Michael. Recently divorced, she now has eight grandchildren, and every Saturday and Sunday can be found at a football match for the Darlington Academy under thirteens and the Northern League. 
 
Sheila has lived in Houghton-le-Spring near Sunderland for thirty years.

He watches them from afar. He knows who they are and where they are. He is waiting in the dark... 
 
A stranger stalks the streets of Houghton le Spring and he is getting too close for comfort for Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt. 
 
Selina, the daughter of Lorraine's partner, DS Luke Daniels, is a beautiful and wilful sixteen year-old with a dark past. Just as it seems she's finally getting back on her feet, she's attacked. Is Selina's past catching up with her? Or is there an even more sinister motive to the assault? 
 
Before long, Lorraine and Luke's worst fears are realised, and a body is found. A young woman, brutally murdered, her heart cut out, and in its place - a single white rose. 
 
Soon the White Rose Killer steps up his campaign. Is DI Hunt imagining it, or does he have a message specially for her? As he circles ever closer, nobody escapes suspicion and Lorraine faces her toughest case yet. 
 
The closer the killer gets, the more elusive he becomes. Lorraine is tested to the limit by a killer with no conscience, no remorse. Just a pitiless hatred for the girls who inspire desire within him...

Bad Moon Rising

THE UNPUTDOWNABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF RUN FOR HOME

This is a real page-turner: the plot is gritty, the characters well-drawn, and the everyday lives of an underclass society are successfully illustrated...

Sheila Quigley started work at 15 as a presser in Hepworths, a tailoring factory. She married at 18 and had three daughters: Dawn, Janine and Diane and a younger son, Michael. Recently divorced, she now has eight grandchildren, six boys and two girls and every Saturday and Sunday can be found at a football match for the under tens and under fifteens. Sheila in Houghton-le-Spring near Sunderland for thirty years.

A young woman walks home by herself, the tapping of her high heels the only sound. At two o' clock in the morning, it's cold, the streets are deserted and she thinks she's all alone. Waiting for her, sleeping soundly in his bed, is her baby son. When he wakes the next morning his mother still isn't back. She's never coming back. Because the streets weren't as deserted as she thought. 
 
Three women are dead and Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is searching for a serial killer. In Houghton-le-Spring it's Feast week, a time when all hell is let loose as the fair comes to town, and a frenzy of celebration and decadence provides a temporary distraction from the grim realities of everyday life. It's not a good time to be searching for a stranger. It's not a good time to be a woman alone...

Run For Home

The bestselling first book in the Lorraine Hunt crime thriller series, from the leading author of North East England crime fiction, including the DI Mike Yorke detective series. A must-buy for fans of bestselling crime books by Martina Cole and the DCI Banks series.

Sheila Quigley started work at the age of fifteen as a presser in Hepworths, a tailoring factory. She married at eighteen and had three daughters: Dawn, Janine and Diane and a younger son, Michael. Recently divorced she now has eight grandchildren, six boys and two girls, and every Saturday and Sunday can be found at a football match for the under tens and under fifteens. Sheila has lived on the Homelands Estate (at present with her son and two dogs) at Houghton-le-Spring near Sunderland for 30 years. Run For Home was her first crime novel, and established her as a bestselling author of crime fiction. She has written many more books in the Lorraine Hunt series and has also written a new series: the DI Mike Yorke detective books.

1985: a man runs for his life - exhausted, wounded, hunted remorselessly by a female assassin known only as The Head Hunter. At the end, he has just enough energy to spit in her face. 
 
2001: sixteen-year-old Kerry Lumsdon runs across the same terrain. She runs to win and she runs to forget. When a headless body is found in the wastelands of the Seahills Estate, Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is called in to investigate the violent murder case. Kerry and Lorraine, different ages and from different worlds, come together when Claire Lumsdon, Kerry's sister, is violently kidnapped - the fourth in a series of abductions of young girls. Headstrong, wilful and convinced the police can't help, Kerry sets out on a frantic search of her own. But her hunt takes her to a world she never knew existed: a violent underworld; a sixteen year old murder; and, finally, to secrets about her own past which her mother hoped she'd never have to face. And all the time, the clock is ticking for Claire... 
 
A gripping thriller from the bestselling author of some of Britain's best crime fiction.

Sheila Quigley

Sheila Quigley proves she isn't a one-hit wonder with this gritty follow-up to Run For Home

Sheila doesn't just write blistering crime novels, she creates a world of grim reality and a raw humanity that grips the emotions and oozes into your psyche

This thriller flows at a tremendous speed, the gripping subject matter making for compulsive reading

A week before Christmas Debbie Stansfield's life falls apart. Her son - her funny, cheeky, kind Richard - has been found hanging from a tree at the Seven Sisters. The police think it's suicide but Debbie won't - can't - accept it. Her son would never kill himself. Not her Richard. No way. 
 
Richard's four friends know something about his death. Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt can feel it. The teenagers are clearly terrified about something - something that scares them more than the police. But they're not about to tell... 
 
As the days tick down to Christmas, Lorraine, increasingly overworked and under pressure, can't ignore her suspicions that there's more to Richard's death than meets the eye. And when Richard's friends start going missing, her worst fears are confirmed. Just who is preying on the young people in Houghton-le-Spring? And will Lorraine be able to stop them, before another vulnerable teenager is found dead?

Sheila Quigley

Praise for Living on a Prayer

Sheila Quigley proves she isn't a one-hit wonder with this gritty follow-up to Run For Home

A good read

Sheila doesn't just write blistering crime novels, she creates a world of grim reality and a raw humanity that grips the emotions and oozes into your psyche

Sheila Quigley proves she isn't a one-hit wonder with this gritty follow-up to Run For Home

A good read

Sheila doesn't just write blistering crime novels, she creates a world of grim reality and a raw humanity that grips the emotions and oozes into your psyche

Sheila Quigley proves she isn't a one-hit wonder with this gritty follow-up to Run For Home

A good read

Sheila doesn't just write blistering crime novels, she creates a world of grim reality and a raw humanity that grips the emotions and oozes into your psyche

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